NYPD traffic tickets and summonses for minor offenses have dropped
off by a staggering 94 percent following the execution of two cops — as
officers feel betrayed by the mayor and fear for their safety, The Post
has learned.

The dramatic drop comes as Police Commissioner Bill Bratton and Mayor
Bill de Blasio plan to hold an emergency summit on Tuesday with the
heads of the five police unions to try to close the widening rift
between cops and the administration.”

But an anonymous source on the police force has admitted to the Huffington Post that out of fear for their lives, citations have all but ceased.

I’m not writing any summonses. Do you think I’m
going to stand there so someone can shoot me or hit me in the head with
an ax?” a cop, who was granted anonymity by the Post, said. “I’m
concerned about my safety. I want to go to home to my wife and kids.”

Times of London: Obama Outreach to Iran Could Be 'Single Most Reckless Act of 2015'

President Barack Obama's hope to turn
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani "into a friendly ally in the fight
against Islamic State" could lead him to undertake "the single most
reckless act of 2015" and cut a bad nuclear weapons deal with Teheran, The Times of London editorialized on January 1.

The newspaper agreed that "a deal that places Iran significantly farther
away from developing a nuclear bomb is clearly attractive."

It cautioned that the "weakened American leader" could turn to foreign policy to justify his 2009 Nobel peace prize.

"If he does so, it has to have at its heart a sense of what the West considers to be worth fighting for and worth preserving."

The Times warned that "Europe has a tendency to turn inwards, the UN is
too often rendered impotent by Moscow and Beijing and NATO summits have
degenerated into fundraising events."

It was time to rethink these institutions which were constructed for a different age, said the editorial.

"If the idea of the 'West' is to retain meaning, then its leaders have
to find ways of acting together to limit the power and influence of
expansionist dictators. It must find coherent responses rather than
purely reflexive strategies towards marauding terrorist armies."

Noting that "the fate of Russia is pivotal" to world stability, the
Times predicted that neither Vladimir Putin nor the Islamic State would
remain permanent fixtures on the international stage. "Let's make that
sooner rather than later, and when it happens, let's be in a situation
where we can declare their departure to be a victory for the West," the
Times said.

Putin's scorn for international opinion has driven Russia to the
economic brink. The U.S. favors tougher sanctions on Moscow. When the
divided EU meets in March 2015 "its instinct" will be to "retreat," the
Times said. "Putin must not be allowed to divide the West and expand his
influence with impunity," the paper urged.

Given the dangerous foreign policy tests ahead, "a world at peace will
rest on a robust response from the West," the paper concluded.

Iran Remains Our Biggest Threat

The agreement this week between the governments of Iraq
and Iran to enter a formal relationship to fight the Islamic State group
should be deeply troubling to the United States. The Islamic State,
also known as ISIS, is a grave threat to the region and is responsible
for the horrifying beheading of American journalists and an aid worker,
as well as the brutal slaughter of countless innocent Muslims and
Christians in Syria and Iraq. But as grave a threat as the Islamic State
is, Iran is a much greater threat -- especially if it acquires nuclear
weapons.

In November, the U.S. decided to extend nuclear
talks with the Iranians, despite stalling on the part of the mullahs.
The practical effect of the decision is to give the Iranians more time
to make a bomb.

Lest anyone believe the sometime assurances of the
Iranians that their desire to enrich uranium is purely for peaceful
purposes, a news story on the United Nations' website in September
raises suspicion. It says International Atomic Energy Agency Director
General Yukiya "Amano noted (that) the Agency is not in a position to
provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear
material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all
nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities." That translates
from diplomatic-speak into: We're not buying the Iranians' story.

A
comprehensive study of Iran's nuclear programs was released in Brussels
in November by the nongovernmental organization International Committee
In Search of Justice, a group made up of current and former European
parliamentarians and other experts. What the study shows is that Iran
has a dual nuclear program -- a civilian side, which appears to pursue
peaceful nuclear energy, and a military program, which skirts sanctions
by obtaining dual-use nuclear materials or simply smuggling bomb-making
materials into the country. Leadership for the civilian and military
programs frequently overlaps, with scientists and others switching
places between the two programs as needed.

Meanwhile, the Obama
administration largely looks away, instead pursuing negotiations that
will never persuade the Iranian regime to give up its nuclear weapons
agenda. Part of the problem is that the administration doesn't want to
take on the Islamic State directly in Iraq, preferring to provide
American military advisers who will play a severely limited role while
the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps actually provides thousands of
troops on the ground.

The Second Amendment Foundation has never been one to let the rights of law-abiding citizens get trampled on without putting up a fight. It should come as no surprise, then, that they’ve taken Washington state’s gun control Initiative 594 to court. Well, parts of it at least.

The Second Amendment Foundation today filed a lawsuit
in federal district court in Tacoma, seeking a permanent injunction
against enforcement of portions of Initiative 594, the 18-page gun
control measure that took effect Dec. 4, alleging that “portions of
I-594…are so vague that a person of ordinary intelligence cannot
understand their scope,” and that other parts violate the Second
Amendment outright.

Joining SAF in this action are the Northwest
School of Safety, Puget Sound Security, Inc., the Pacific Northwest
Association of Investors, the Firearms Academy of Seattle, six
individual citizens including SAF founder and Executive Vice President
Alan Gottlieb and the Gottlieb Family Trust. They are represented by
Seattle attorneys Steven Fogg and David Edwards, and Bellevue attorney
Miko Tempski.

Named as defendants are Attorney General Bob
Ferguson and Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste, in their
official capacities.

“We took this action due to the confusing and arbitrary
language and nature of I-594,” Gottlieb said in a statement. “Three of
our plaintiffs, including my son, are residents of other states and
cannot legally borrow handguns for personal protection while traveling
in Washington. Under I-594, all transfers must be done through
federally-licensed firearms dealers, but under federal law, dealers
cannot legally transfer handguns to residents of other states. I-594
also essentially prohibits our non-resident plaintiffs from storing
their own firearms here.

He continued: “This measure effectively
infringes upon, if not outright prohibits, the exercise of their
constitutionally-protected right to bear arms under the Second
Amendment.”

Aside from the fact that it is nearly impossible to
enforce, will not make anyone safer, and is a waste of law enforcement
resources, this was one of the reasons the vast majority of sheriffs in
the state fiercely opposed the initiative from the get-go.

“We’re
not trying to stop background checks,” Gottlieb said. “We’re taking
action against a poorly-written and unconstitutionally vague measure
that criminalizes activities that are perfectly legal anywhere else in
the country, thus striking at the very heart of a
constitutionally-protected, fundamental civil right.”

The
President of the United States had agreed to work with Hamas, the
terrorist group behind the kidnapping. It was shortly after the Obama
administration agreed to work with the Hamas-Fatah government that the
schoolboys were kidnapped and murdered. For this alone, the saboteur
should be impeached.

“The
strategy carries risks, including the possibility the Palestinians
themselves could be accused of war crimes over rocket attacks by the
extremist group Hamas on Israeli population centers and other violence
against Jewish targets.” Good. They should be. But it likely that the
International Criminal Court is as biased against Israel and antisemitic
as the United Nations, and will validate “Palestinian” atrocity
fictions.

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Turning up the pressure on
Israel, the Palestinians announced Wednesday that they are joining the
International Criminal Court to pursue war-crimes charges against the
Jewish state — a risky, high-stakes move that brought threats of
retaliation from Israel and criticism from the U.S.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas acted a day after suffering a
defeat in the U.N. Security Council, which voted down a resolution
setting a three-year deadline for the establishment of a Palestinian
state on lands occupied by Israel.

Turning to the international court at The Hague marks a major policy
shift, transforming Abbas’ relations with Israel from tense to openly
hostile. The ultimate goal is to pressure Israel into withdrawing from
the territories and agreeing to Palestinian statehood.

The strategy carries risks, including the possibility the
Palestinians themselves could be accused of war crimes over rocket
attacks by the extremist group Hamas on Israeli population centers and
other violence against Jewish targets….

Op-ed: Its Happened Again but
This Time the Race-Baiters Remain SilentBy: Diane Sori

When will some people learn the simple fact that if you go up against
the police chances are it will be you who is at the receiving end of a
bullet and NOT the police.

Case in point...coming just 10 days after Ismaaiyl Brinsley
assassinated N.Y.P.D. Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu in retaliation
for the police (justifiable) killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner,
this past Tuesday 52-year-old Joseph Anthony Pacini was shot and killed
by police in Drexel Hills, Pennsylvania, after police tried to serve him with a
warrant for his Facebook threats, via YouTube videos, where he
threatened to kill police and FBI agents.

In some of the videos, the previously twice-arrested Pacini claims he
was falsely accused of crimes he didn't commit, begs for
singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles to save him, and threatens to kill law
enforcement officers who were always following him...following him in
his own mind that is. And in his very last video, posted at 4pm the very
afternoon he was shot and killed, he spews a rambling tirade that
became a harbinger of what lay ahead as he said, “This is my coming out
party. So if you want to try and bring me down I will [expletive] kill
you and your whole [expletive] family all right? So go ahead and
[expletive] with me.”

Well he did get to go to his coming out party but NOT in the way he intended.

Briefly, after going to his home in Clifton Heights to serve a
warrant and seeing him leaving, Clifton Police followed Pacini into
Upper Darby then tried to make a felony traffic stop and take him into
custody. Unsuccessful, they were forced to call the Haverford Police and
Upper Darby Police for help and together they were able to box Pacini
into the driveway of a bank. Telling Pacini he was under arrest they
then tried to approach the car Pacini was in, but instead of leaving his
car with his hands up as instructed, Pacini chose to put his car into
reverse and slam into the official vehicle of the Clifton Heights police
chief. Pacini then attempted to run over the officers who were standing
around the vehicle leading five officers to open fire on his car,
hitting Pacini several times, rightfully killing him thus saving the
taxpayers the cost of a trial and a lengthy prison stay.

And true to form and right on cue the kumbaya sorts struck up their
band to bloviate that the police had killed an unarmed, and in their
eyes, mentally-ill man. Blind to or simply ignoring the fact that
Pacini's 2005 arrest was for recklessly endangering another person,
false imprisonment, and making terrorist threats directed towards
Philadelphia...his threats now became his sad reality when this man
willfully decided to use his vehicle as a weapon.

And so the war on police continues on...continues on with the
encouragement of the likes of Al Sharpton whose vile words, "What do we
want..We want dead cops," and "NO Justice NO Peace," along with Obama
having told the Ferguson anything but peaceful protesters to "stay the
course" have set off the latest round of pure hatred by blacks against
all those who wear the badge. But there is a difference with this
particular shooting as this time the perpetrator was white as were the
officers involved, and because of that one fact the race-baiters and
white-haters...in specific the trio of Obama, Sharpton, and
Holder...have remained oh so silent for to them who cares if a white man
is shot dead and who cares if white officers are killed for to them all
that matters is black folk.

Remember, since Obama first became president back in January 2009
there has been increasing anti-government sentiments (rightfully)
spreading throughout this country because of the words and actions of
both he and his administration. And that coupled with the race-baiting,
white-hating trios false and overblown claims of a troubled relationship
between local law enforcement and the black community has been the
direct cause of once healing race relations being ripped open again, and
in turn filtering down to its creating of a very dangerous situation
for law enforcement all across the country. So dangerous in fact that
the number of local law enforcement officers killed by firearms this
year alone* rose by 56% and that number included 15 ambush deaths, with
50 officers being killed by firearms as opposed to last year's total of
32 such deaths.

Now add in these numbers...126 federal, local, tribal, and
territorial officers were killed in the line of duty in 2014. That's a
24% rise from the 2013 total of 102 on-duty deaths. And...this should
come as NO surprise...most of those officers killed in both local and
national totals were killed by black perpetrators...something the media
always seems to fail to mention.

But to be fair, it must be noted that whites have also murdered
police officers. However, as opposed to the recent series of
cop-killings spurred on by Al Sharpton and his ilk, the race of the
officers played NO part in those killings. For example, the fatal
shooting of two Las Vegas police officers ambushed last June by Jerad
and Amanda Miller while they were eating lunch, and a Pennsylvania state
trooper killed in an ambush in September as he walked towards his
patrol car by survivalist Eric Frein (who then led police on a 48-day
manhunt), were based on the generalized anti-government sentiments of the
killers NOT on a vendetta against the police for their (rightful)
killings of black thugs.

And if you go further back to May 20, 2010, two West Memphis,
Arkansas, police officers were killed by a father-son team using AK-47s
during a routine traffic stop...both of whom had posted anti-government
rants on YouTube. And in April, 2009, Richard Poplawski, also using an
AK-47, killed three officers who responded to his deliberately placed
call of a domestic disturbance at his home, because he was convinced
that the Obama government via the local police were going to take away
his and the rest of America's guns. Again, the difference...and it's a
big one...between these murders and the recent round of non-black police
murders is that these people had NO idea what color the officers would
be who stopped them or responded to their call. Does this fact temper
down the fact that officers were murdered...absolutely NOT...but it does
remove the racial aspects completely.

Race...for the Obama, Sharpton, and Holder trio (remember Holder
seems always to take the death penalty off the table when blacks murder
whites) and the thugs who idolize them... everything is about
race...from their very existence to every move they make or thing they
do they perceive is being done to them simply because of the color of
the skin. Their words, actions, or deeds, matters NOT just that they are
'people of color' and NO more. That and anything a white man might say
about their behaving badly.

For example, when white ex-NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani stated his opinion
that Obama was directly contributing to hate propaganda by encouraging
black people to "hate the police," and then refused to back down or
apologize for those words, black community leaders got bent out of shape
with what has proven to be the truth...proven to be the truth by the
very actions of black thugs behaving
badly... with the key word being 'black.'

And the head black thug...the leader of the thug pack...is none other
than the anything but Reverend Al Sharpton himself, and that can be
explained quite simply by Giuliani's further words about the
“anti-police” message being sent out to the black community. "When
Sharpton, an outspoken agitator who has protested homicides of
minorities by police since the 1990s, is in public with leaders such as
Obama or New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio that stands for something.
He is involved in every racial or quasi-racial issues that has involved
any police officer…always on the side of whoever is against the police."

And how right Giuliani is because whether some choose to believe it
or NOT actions do speak louder than words and Sharpton's direct
relationship with both Obama and de Blasio...hell...he's both of their
defacto but NOT admitted to race-relations (ill) adviser...helps to
contribute to the overall anti-white, anti-police sentiments coming from
this White House and to a slightly lesser degree from New York's Gracie
Mansion. How so...because Obama and De Blasio both NEVER criticize nor
counter any of Sharpton's words or actions...in fact, in the case of
Obama, he continuously praises Sharpton's words and actions and feeds
upon the Sharpton rhetoric of blaming whites for all that ails today's
black community, especially its young black men.

And now as we await Sunday's funeral for assassinated Officer Wenjian
Lu, the sad fact remains that this anti-white, anti-police sentiment is
continuing to be spewed by the likes of Al Sharpton with his vile
words, and by the likes of Barack HUSSEIN Obama with his silence in
coming forth as president and calling for an end to thugs behaving
badly...but then again how can he when he too is a thug albeit an
educated one. And as the old saying goes, while you can physically take
the boy... or in this case the man...out of the ghetto, sometimes you just can't take
the ghetto out of the boy.

Just stating a fact as I see it.
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* Figures as per the annual report by the nonprofit
National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund

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